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Sick

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Sick is an investigative podcast about what goes wrong in the places meant to keep us healthy. Sick's first season explores the complications of fertility medicine, one Indiana doctor’s abuse of power and the generations of lives he affected.

Season 2, we turn our attention to prisons— places that have to keep people healthy, but are built to punish them. New episodes start Oct. 26.

Sick is an investigative podcast about what goes wrong in the places meant to keep us healthy. Sick's first season explores the complications of fertility medicine, one Indiana doctor’s abuse of power and the generations of lives he affected.

Season 2, we turn our attention to prisons— places that have to keep people healthy, but are built to punish them. New episodes start Oct. 26.

5hr 59min
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Sick Season One Trailer
September 19, 20191min 43sec
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A mother and son learn a terrible secret about an Indianapolis doctor.
October 15, 201923min 42sec
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Jacoba Ballard thought she might have a couple half siblings. She found more than that.
October 22, 201925min 9sec
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What kind of doctor uses his own sperm to impregnate his patients?
October 29, 201925min 32sec
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Donald Cline still doesn’t come clean at a face-to-face meeting with the siblings, which leads to more questions.
November 5, 201932min 30sec
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Donald Cline explains himself.
November 12, 201928min 33sec
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Could what Cline did to his patients happen today?
November 19, 201930min 58sec
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Cline’s deception goes deeper than replacing anonymous donor sperm. But bringing him to justice isn’t easy. 
November 26, 201929min 2sec
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For the families connected to Donald Cline, this is a story with no end in sight.
December 3, 201926min 36sec
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In 1972, Cline impregnated a patient with his own sperm, maybe for the first time.
February 12, 202016min 26sec
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Jake and Lauren go to an unexpected place that's meant to keep people healthy. Season 2 launches October 26.
October 12, 20212min 39sec
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We start Season 2 with the story of 19-year-old Princola Shields. What went wrong with her care at the Indiana Women’s Prison? Pretty much everything.
October 26, 202123min 59sec
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How do you get justice when something has gone wrong behind bars?
November 2, 202122min 50sec
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This week, we explore the system’s effort to keep people inside from killing themselves: suicide watch.
November 9, 202121min 19sec
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Correctional officers are supposed to keep people in prison safe. But they can be the worst thing that happens to women inside.
November 16, 202123min 41sec
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Indiana made the drastic decision to privatize health care in its prisons. It was supposed to improve care, but more than 20 years later, it’s unclear if it worked.
November 23, 202124min 1sec

S1 Update: An Appointment With Dr. Cline

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February 12, 202016min 26sec

In 1972, Cline impregnated a patient with his own sperm, maybe for the first time. The Farber twins are the oldest known Cline siblings. When one of them needed a fertility doctor, she went to the best. 

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